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Martha Argerich is widely regarded as one of the greatest pianists of all time.

Schumann's "Poet's Love, ""Five folk props for cello and piano," Brahms Cello Sonata No. 1 and Schumann's " Dedication."
The inner beauty of German romantic music, which digs deep into the heart, is conveyed through cellist Park Yushin's first album.

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Henrik Hellstenius's intense yet unassuming exploration of the interacting worlds of sound and time has spanned more than three decades. That hunger for discovery is perhaps the single most unifying feature across his life and work. It was already forming rapidly in his youth, from his teenage years spent listening to Keith Jarrett and Jan Garbarek to his studies of spectral music with Gerard Grisey in Paris.

The Korean tenor, Seil Kim, received a diploma in voice from the Conservatorio di Santa Cecilia in Rome (1994-2000) and a concert diploma in voice from the Conservatoire de Musique de Genève (2003-2005). In 2008, the Zürcher Hochschule der Künste (Zurich University of the Arts) awarded him a Soloiste Diploma and named him a “Musiker” (2007-2009). His teachers have included Nicolai Gedda, Franco Corelli, Thomas Quasthoff, Eric Tappy, and Scot Weir. The Winner of the International Schubert Competition in Osaka, Seil has also won Second Prize of the Maria Callas Competition in Athens, Third Prize in the “Das Lied” competition in Berlin, the Swiss Migros Prize (twice), and the Best-Singer Prize of Verbier Festival in Switzerland.

Fourteen years ago, the baritone Florian Boesch released a disc devoted to Schumann’s settings of the poet Heinrich Heine.

Schumann Gold Review by Blair Sanderson
To celebrate the 200th anniversary of Robert Schumann's birth, Deutsche Grammophon combed through its vast archives for the most representative excerpts and short pieces by this famous German Romantic composer, not only drawing on his collections of lieder and keyboard pieces, but also taking movements from long works, such as the symphonies, concertos, and chamber pieces. This 2010 twofer presents a distinguished roster of artists, from conductors John Eliot Gardiner, Leonard Bernstein, Rafael Kubelik, Georg Solti, and Herbert von Karajan, to pianists Martha Argerich, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Vladimir Horowitz, Nelson Freire, Maria-João Pires, and Radu Lupu, along with a large number of chamber instrumentalists and vocalists to make this a sampler of the label's stars, as well as a survey of Schumann's most memorable music. One might think a collection that spans several decades and offers both ADD and DDD recordings might sound uneven, but the audio quality is fairly well balanced in volume and consistently clean across the album's 33 tracks. Because examples are given of all of Schumann's key works and favored genres, this is a fine introduction to his music, and Schumann Gold provides easy access to many fine offerings in DG's catalog.

Bereits die ersten zwei Alben von Matthias Goerne für die Deutsche Grammophon, aufgenommen mit den Pianisten Jan Lisiecki sowie Seong-Jin Cho, wurden von der Presse hochgelobt.

The young, already internationally successful Austrian baritone and ensemble member of the Munich Gärtnerplatztheater Daniel Gutmann presents songs by Robert Schumann based on poems by Heinrich Heine with Maximilian Kromer, piano, on this CD. In addition to Schumann's most popular song cycle, "Dichterliebe" Op. 48, from which the title of this album, "Tränenflut", is taken, this recording also finds the "Liederkreis" Op. 24 with it's nine songs enter this compilation. In addition, Gutmann and Kromer interpret with "Belshazzar", Op. 57, and "Die zwei Grenadiere", Op. 49/1, Schumann's settings of two of the German poet's best-known ballads.